ANOTHER MILESTONE

Well, the RHD BN2 chassis is now at the body/paint shop for rust repair and paint.  We finished stripping it in about four three-day stints, which I thought was pretty good.  Here’s the scene as we departed Kent’s place for the shop in Eugene, about 175 miles away.

Why did we select a shop so far away?  Easy.  This is the shop that was used by our dear departed friend John Wilson, and is still used by his son Robert – now running John’s Healey restoration business, Healey Lane in Marcola, Oregon.  The owner of the body shop stated that he has done over 50 Healeys, and so he knows the cars and the parts sources.  That’s definitely worth a lot.

The shop owner estimated that we could potentially get the car back by Halloween, so in the meantime we have already begun the process of cleaning and prepping all the stuff we removed, getting it ready for reinstallation.  Then the chassis goes back to the shop for fitting the outer body, and so it’s looking quite possible that we’ll have it done in the spring.  It will be Carmine Red with a black interior, as original, and with the car’s documented provenance, we’re anticipating that the result will be a really spectacular historical example.